as in synchronism
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a state in which things happen, move, or exist at the same time
The objects moved in synchrony with each other.
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Recent Examples of synchrony
The video later switches to an aerial view, showing a megapod of dolphins, all moving in synchrony across the water.
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Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
As a person sleeps, this synchrony grows, producing brain waves that are lower in frequency and higher in amplitude.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
And this interbrain synchrony — which only occurs in certain brain areas, not the whole brain — seems to support things like teamwork.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 1 Oct. 2025
These pairs seemed to use synchrony as a jumping-off point for exploring more ideas rather than an end.
—Emily Falk, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025
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Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
As a person sleeps, this synchrony grows, producing brain waves that are lower in frequency and higher in amplitude.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
And this interbrain synchrony — which only occurs in certain brain areas, not the whole brain — seems to support things like teamwork.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 1 Oct. 2025
These pairs seemed to use synchrony as a jumping-off point for exploring more ideas rather than an end.
—Emily Falk, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for synchrony
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As the image turns, in absolute synchronism with the turning of a receiving cylinder at the distant point, the high and low spots of the relief image are brought under a point or stylus.—
Mark Fischetti,
Scientific American,
1 Dec. 2022
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Synchronism colors are not blended but rather placed next to each other, just as music notes are placed one after the other to create a scale.—
Hailey Ross,
idahostatesman,
16 June 2017
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Just the same, the flip side of this is that baseball is notoriously fickle and often deceptive from one day to the next, with the line between coincidence and trend ever-blurry.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
31 Mar. 2026
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That venue choice was no coincidence, as the new album is in many ways a meditation on the group’s cultural identity.—
Nicole Fell,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Mar. 2026
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Public hearings, comprehensive plans, zoning rules, concurrency requirements — these are the tools ordinary people use to say where growth belongs, what should be protected, and how development pays its own way.—
Sean Parks,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2026
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Cloud object stores often introduce unpredictable latencies and steep egress fees at scale, especially when serving inference workloads that demand low response times and massive concurrency.—
Sven Oehme,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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“Synchrony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/synchrony. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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